Priority 10 from the Contraception PSP

UNCERTAINTY: Are there effective new methods of contraception available for men? (JLA PSP Priority 10)

Overall ranking

10

JLA question ID

0049/10

Explanatory note

About 1 in five women attending community sexual health clinics use condoms as their primary method. This is the only method men who wish to avoid paternity have. Men can not get pregnant so risks benefits of contraception are different than for women, but men should have access to methods of contraception so that they too have choice of when and whether to become a parent. There are no imminently promising methods on the horizon.